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Tag: Fiction

  • Fiction

“Her Own Private Atoll” by Timothy Ryan

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on December 22, 2020February 21, 2021

Malé is now the besieged capital of the submerged Maldives, built up precariously on the ruins of oil tanks and docking derricks, apartment blocks and concrete breakwaters.
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  • art

“A Red-Tailed Hawk” by Diane Joy Schmidt

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on December 8, 2020February 17, 2021

Her keys might have opened the church, and she the one to serve sponge fingers like death.
(The Loop)

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  • Fiction

“Are you at home?” by Liu Ying, translated from the Chinese by Michael Day

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on November 27, 2020February 16, 2021

She spends her days tending the grapes, and she runs a little gift shop in the village . . . Now that she’s simplified her relationships with people, she seems even healthier, even more herself.
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  • Fiction

“Dollhouse” by Sobia Ali

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on November 24, 2020February 16, 2021

It was deemed very unfeminine to play the bridegroom . . . Girls would tease you and provoke you like a real bridegroom and laugh at your expense.
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  • Fiction

“Son” by Azamat Gabuev, translated from the Russian by Elaine Veronica Wilson

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on November 5, 2020February 16, 2021

With boys comes a lot of stress. You worry about how you can buy him his own place, or you worry about who he’ll bring into your house.
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  • Fiction

“Inkling, Sketch, Tattoo, Scar” by Joe Baumann

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on November 3, 2020February 16, 2021

A cacophony of voices inquiring, wanting to disentangle the mysteries of the tattoos like hieroglyphs, pictograms.
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  • Fiction

“Virgin Sacrifice” by Alice Yang

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 16, 2020February 11, 2021

content warning: sexual assault

My mouth is full of blood, like a poppy growing in my mouth, it tastes like the pennies I used to throw in wishing wells.
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  • Fiction

Flash Fiction by Maureen Sherbondy

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 13, 2020February 16, 2021

Her mother continued to hand her things: that lost dollar, a Chinese cookie fortune, one missing pearl earring.
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  • Fiction

“The Natural Order of Things” by Michelle Ross

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

There is no such thing as old water, but when I answered, “I’m as old as water,” my son’s eyes grew wide. He says that because water cycles, it’s all super old. (fiction)

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  • Fiction

“The Black Hole Between Us” by Luca Ricci, translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 6, 2020February 16, 2021

it’s still spring in Rome, a perennial incitement to live. We meet in Piazza Cavour, me with my selfish FFP3 mask, Luisa with her altruistic blue cloth one.
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  • Fiction

“Uncle Ham” by David Nelson

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 5, 2020February 21, 2021

California has weathered him with sun and heat. Michigan has begun to change me, too. We’re two birds . . . both singing variations of the same song.
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  • Fiction

“Lateef” by Samina Hadi-Tabassum

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 2, 2020February 17, 2021

The rose bushes lining the sidewalk leading to the front steps appeared like sentinels at the Mughal court, waiting for a decry from the Indian parent at the parapet.
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  • Fiction

“Tinderbox” by Michael L. Woodruff

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  • Posted on September 22, 2020February 17, 2021

I look to the nearby hill, past her and the highway, and watch it blacken. Its lines are clean and honest.
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  • Fiction

“Rivkah and Floradita” by Kristene Cristobal

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on August 27, 2020February 16, 2021

content warning: discussion about suicidal events and ideation.

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  • Fiction

“Breach of Decorum” by Paula Brancato

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on August 6, 2020February 16, 2021

I wanted to shout, but my tongue felt like the army slept on it. I wish I had a bittersweet Lick-M-Aid.
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  • Fiction

“Take It Out of Me” by Salvatore Pane

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on July 21, 2020February 16, 2021

I’ve never liked American reality TV because there’s so much hyperbole, yelling and arguing that reminds me of my childhood, that cramped home, the screaming matches, the constant fighting over money.
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  • Fiction

“Flooding” by James Stewart III

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on July 16, 2020February 16, 2021

Moving beaters hacked and coughed like emphysema patients.
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  • Fiction

“It Happened in a Flood” by Mattie Leila Wyndham

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on July 14, 2020March 2, 2021

The space between the woman and the art flattened until she felt she was the art.
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  • Fiction

“Endling” by Heather Momyer

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on July 2, 2020February 16, 2021

What does it mean when most of your countrymen live in Moscow or Los Angeles?
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  • Fiction

“The White Envelope (1975)” by Catherine Cusset, translated from the French by Armine Kotin Mortimer

  • by nvondrasek22
  • Posted on June 25, 2020February 16, 2021

All night long, Elena tossed and turned on her thin mattress and listened to . . . the coughs, the laughs, the sobs, and the whispers of all these poor people who had the same hopes as they did.
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  • Fiction

“Spreadsheet” by Paul Smith

  • by nvondrasek22
  • Posted on June 18, 2020February 16, 2021

So they invoked God to bless their spreadsheet. Some said God said those words were His . . . And others said God never really said that.
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  • Fiction

“Touch” by Parker Ewing

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on April 28, 2020February 16, 2021

You notice she doesn’t have her usual mom smell; she smells like orange trees and flower fields.
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  • Fiction

“Mother Death” by Daniel Chacón

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on April 7, 2020February 16, 2021

He went into the kitchen to look for the car keys, found them on the hook where she usually hung them, and put them in his pocket.
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  • Fiction

“In Bob Berg’s House” by Deven James Philbrick

  • by nvondrasek22
  • Posted on April 2, 2020February 16, 2021

The men frequently give aliases; as simple as John Smith or as attention-seeking as Carlos Danger. She guesses that they believe her name to be an alias too.
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  • Fiction

“Zoophile” by Melissa Hardy

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on March 31, 2020February 16, 2021

He wore a pair of faded bib overalls over a black NASCAR tee shirt, a red “Make America Great Again” hat, and held in one hand the electrician-taped handle of a bulging duffel bag and in the other, a leash attached to the pale pink, rhinestone studded collar of a doleful looking Harlequin Great Dane.
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  • Fiction

“Run Crawl Fly” by Susanna Goldfinger

  • by nvondrasek22
  • Posted on March 3, 2020February 16, 2021

I turn around and gain elevation so I won’t be tempted. It’s her turn to hunt.
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  • Fiction

“Wine for Breakfast” by Michele Ruby

  • by nvondrasek22
  • Posted on February 25, 2020February 16, 2021

Mary Ann seemed more at ease, and eventually turned to Greta to ask, “Does your son obey you?”
Greta smiled, “No. Does anyone’s?”
(fiction)

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  • ECONOMY

“John Henry’s Resume” by Dustin M. Hoffman

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on February 20, 2020February 16, 2021

Professional Skills: Steel-driving, of course
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  • Fiction

“The Last Moments of a Brave Mouse” by Ahmed Shaker, translated from the Arabic by Essam M. A-Jassim

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on February 6, 2020February 16, 2021

The mouse saw the Ghost of Death approach him as the humans struck him with the shoe, stick, broom, and a series of quick kicks.
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  • Fiction

“Sea-Worm” by Alexandros Plasatis

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on January 9, 2020February 16, 2021

I want something in return for telling you my story. I want you to remember me. I want you to say that I was a capable man.
(fiction)

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